aggregate_cases {GHRexplore}R Documentation

Aggregate cases

Description

Aggregates a data frame containing disease cases in space and/or time.

Usage

aggregate_cases(
  data = NULL,
  cases = NULL,
  pop = NULL,
  time = NULL,
  area = NULL,
  pt = 1e+05,
  aggregate_space = NULL,
  aggregate_time = NULL
)

Arguments

data

Data frame containing equally spaced (daily, weekly, monthly) incident cases for one or multiple areas.

cases

Name of the variable that identifies the cases.

pop

Name of the variable that identifies the population.

time

Name of the variable that identifies the temporal dimension. The values must be in date format ("yyyy-mm-dd") representing the day of observation for daily data, the first day of the week for weekly, or the first day of the month for monthly observations.

area

Name of variable that identifies the different locations (e.g., areal units) for which a time series is available.

pt

Scale of the person-time (default 100,000) for incidence rates.

aggregate_space

Name of variable used to define spatial aggregation groups.

aggregate_time

Temporal scale used to perform temporal aggregation. Options are: "week" (ISO 8601), "month", "year".

Value

A data frame with the aggregated cases.


[Package GHRexplore version 0.1.1 Index]